{"id":927,"date":"2006-04-27T06:51:25","date_gmt":"2006-04-27T11:51:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/more-on-jacobs\/"},"modified":"2006-04-27T10:19:50","modified_gmt":"2006-04-27T15:19:50","slug":"more-on-jacobs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/more-on-jacobs","title":{"rendered":"More on Jacobs"},"content":{"rendered":"

Witold Rybczynski at Slate has a brief appreciation of Jane Jacobs’s work<\/a>. He points out that Jacobs largely ignored the suburbs, which is putting it mildly. In her best-known book<\/a>, she considers them solely as a negative, the way most urban theorists do. Which reminds me that I need to get back to reading Bruegmann’s Sprawl<\/a> sometime soon, maybe before I make the leap into that Robert Moses<\/a> book. Guess I oughtta get to reading Rybczynski’s City Life<\/a> sometime, too.<\/p>\n

(And I oughtta get back to some of my ruminations on Jacobs & New Orleans<\/a>)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Witold Rybczynski at Slate has a brief appreciation of Jane Jacobs’s work. He points out that Jacobs largely ignored the suburbs, which is putting it mildly. In her best-known book, she considers them solely as a negative, the way most urban theorists do. Which reminds me that I need to get back to reading Bruegmann’s … <\/p>\n

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